HIST 3000W - The History Workshop - Empire and Sovereignty

Evaluating Sources

BEAM is an acronym intended to help students think about the various ways we might use sources when writing a researched argument. Joseph Bizup, an English professor at Boston University, first published this idea in 2008.

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